215 results for “General Electric”, page 7 of 11
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 11, 1937
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on the North Carolina Asbestosis Cases (1937)
A one-page letter of January 11, 1937, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan. Brown noted Simpson's report that Union Asbestos & Rubber would pay $250 a…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · December 28, 1936
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on the Seven Sponsors of the Saranac Experiments (1936)
A one-page letter of December 28, 1936, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, thanking him for "the very good news that seven members of the industry…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 4, 1937
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson on Union Asbestos's Limit and Dr. Shull's Paper (1937)
A one-page letter of January 4, 1937, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, answering two letters of December 29. Brown wrote that he was interested in…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · March 22, 1937
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson Referring the Saranac Invoice to J-M's Auditor (1937)
…Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan. Brown had received Simpson's letter of March 20 and was referring it, with the invoice, to J-M's general auditor, J…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · April 5, 1939
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson Returning the Sayers and Dreessen Article (1939)
A short letter of April 5, 1939, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan, thanking him for his letter of April 4 and "the interesting article by Drs…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · November 23, 1936
Vandiver Brown to Sumner Simpson Sending the Memorandum of Agreement for Signatures (1936)
A two-page letter of November 23, 1936, headed "Re: Asbestos Dust Experiments," from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to Sumner Simpson, president of Raybestos-Manhattan. As agreed with Simpson "last Thursday," Brown enclosed…
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Company document · JM Knowledge Chronology · May 11, 1937
Vandiver Brown to Union Asbestos & Rubber Enclosing Gardner's First Progress Report (1937)
A one-paragraph cover letter of May 11, 1937, from Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, to L. J. Silverman, secretary-treasurer of Union Asbestos & Rubber Company in Chicago, enclosing Dr. Leroy Gardner's "First…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · July 21, 1936
W. H. Dunn to M. F. Judd Charging the Recheck Survey Bill to the Charleston Division (1936)
…the Sumner Simpson Papers. Their index describes this document as follows: States that Metropolitan's fees for the resurvey of the Charleston plant will be charged to General Asbestos and Rubber Division. Related documents W. H…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · June 29, 1936
W. J. McConnell of Metropolitan Life to Sumner Simpson Enclosing the North Charleston Recheck Survey (1936)
…indexed the Sumner Simpson Papers. Their index describes this document as follows: Transmittal letter for copy of recheck survey conducted at General Asbestos and Rubber Division. Related documents Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Recheck Dust Survey of…
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Company document · Union Carbide documents · October 1939
A. B. Cummins, "Fillers—Asbestos and Diatomaceous Silica," Modern Plastics (October 1939)
A trade-journal article on asbestos (chiefly chrysotile) and diatomaceous silica as mineral fillers in plastics. It gives chemical analyses of Canadian and Arizona chrysotile and of Celite diatomaceous silica, general characteristics, 1939 developments, product uses…
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Company document · JM Document Review · May 19, 1932
Physical Examinations of Employees at the Manville Factory (1932)
…The report explains how cases were labeled. Positive cases with an earlier job in a dusty trade "were called 'Pneumoconiosis'" (the general term for dust disease of the lungs), and those with no earlier dust history…
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Patent · September 17, 1935
Brake Lining (US Patent 2,014,438, 1935)
…It was assigned to General Motors Corp. The patent's description opens (from the scanned text): This invention relates to brakes and particularly to an improvement in the lining for use with brake shoes or bands…
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Patent · February 26, 1935
High Pressure Brick containing Magnesia (US Patent 1,992,482, 1935)
…9, 1934. It was assigned to General Refractories Co. The patent's description opens (from the scanned text): My invention relates to the methods involved (Cl. 25 1ss) ing the particles into larger and smaller sizes…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1938
Pneumoconiosis And Pulmonary Carcinoma
…the authors' own series, showed 30 with lung cancer (0.8 per cent). The authors said this was lower than in routine autopsies of the general population. Of 3,338 animals, only 2 guinea pigs developed…
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Patent · March 3, 1931
Apparatus for Making Corrugated Sheets (US Patent 1,794,435, 1931)
…particularly designed for the manufacture of corrugated sheet asbestos material. lFhe general object of the invention is to Y provide mechanism for producingcorrugated sheets of plastic material, having regard to the liability of the material when…
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Article · Sumner Simpson Papers · April 10, 1939
E. R. Weidlein, Research at Mellon Institute during 1938-1939, in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry (1939)
…employers on behalf of their employees. States the 250 corporations affiliated with the Foundation have contributed to the welfare of their 1,000,000 employees and therefore to the "general social good." Related documents H. B…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · April 29, 1938
Dr. A. J. Lanza to Vandiver Brown on the Mechanical Action of Asbestos Dust (1938)
…Lanza, assistant medical director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, to Vandiver Brown, Johns-Manville's general attorney, on Dr. Gardner's second progress report. Lanza wrote that Gardner had told him it was "his growing conviction…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · June 3, 1935
Dr. Albert S. Gray of the Connecticut Department of Health to M. F. Judd on the Films (1935)
…F. Judd, secretary and general manager of Raybestos-Manhattan. Gray had "the films of which you spoke" and would be glad to comment on them, but felt "it would be better to see you personally regarding…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · January 9, 1939
Dr. Paul O. Snoke to O. H. Cilley on the Manheim X-Ray Films (1939)
…O. H. Cilley, assistant general manager of the United States Asbestos Division of Raybestos-Manhattan at Manheim, Pennsylvania. Snoke had X-rayed the Manheim workers and was sending "the entire group of films" to Dr. W…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · May 20, 1937
Dr. R. R. Sayers of the Public Health Service to E. H. Jeffords on Publishing the North Charleston Dust Study (1937)
…to E. H. Jeffords, general manager of Raybestos-Manhattan's General Asbestos and Rubber plant at North Charleston, South Carolina. Sayers enclosed a paper on the study made at the plant earlier that year, which he…